Free slot: The Bowery Boys

How The Bowery Boys works

The online casino world is a very active one, with slot machine providers releasing new slots every week. In recent months, if there's one provider whose slots are eagerly awaited, it's Hacksaw Gaming. In this review, we're going to tell you about The Bowery Boys, a slot that was released in February 2022.

When you play this slot machine, you will be taken into the world of New York gangs in the 1950s. The Bowery Boys is composed of a very captivating musical atmosphere as well as very pleasant graphics. It is a slot machine whose starting grid is divided into 6 columns with 5 symbols inside. There are several features to get your teeth into on this slot, while it will be quite possible for you to unlock free games. As you will see later, The Bowery Boys has three different free games.

Connections on this slot machine work in a cascading fashion, meaning that a game round only stops when no more connections are possible. Each time a symbol connects, it disappears to make room for new symbols.

Finally, it is a slot available at the vast majority of the online casinos present at Lucky7Bonus, where you can play spins ranging from €0.10 to €100.

As it was written in the introduction of this slot, The Bowery Boys contains different features during your pay games. These can appear during any spin and can win you a lot of money if you are lucky.

The first feature is when you make connections. Each time you make a connection, the value of your winnings will accumulate on top of your starting grid, as you can see in the picture below. During your turn, if a bomb appears, it will multiply the value displayed above the screen by the multiplier that is shown when the bomb explodes. In the following screen, you can see that the value of €1.35 will be multiplied by 5.

Thus, the value of multipliers that can appear on The Bowery Boys varies between x 2 and x 100.

The second feature on The Bowery Boys works with chests of different sizes, as well as a key. Three different types of chests can be dropped during the basic game:

• The small box where inside is a sum ranging from x 2 to x 5 your starting bet

• The average safe where a bet of x 10 to x 25 your starting bet can appear

• The big box with a bet that varies between x 50 and x 250 your starting bet

It is important to know that for the chest to open, a key must appear on the same turn, as you can see in the following screen.

Last but not least, it will be possible to combine the two features. Thus, you can get a chest with a key and a bomb to multiply the value of your winnings.

The different symbols of The Bowery Boys

The Bowery Boys is a slot machine that consists of several different symbols. Like the vast majority of slots in the online casino world, there is a wild symbol. This symbol, represented by a barrel, replaces all the symbols in the slot machine, except for the bonus symbols, the bomb and the ones that give a feature.

It has no value as such, it just takes the value of the symbols it connects with.

Then there are two different categories of symbols. First, there is a category of 5 symbols, which are called premium symbols. They are so called because they appear much less frequently than the other symbols, but they will pay you more.

They are represented by:

• A man with a moustache on a green background

• Un homme qui prend un coup de pied

• A man holding a gun in his hand

• A couple kissing

• A woman holding a glass of wine

The following screen shows the values of the premium symbols with a starting bet of 1 euro.

The second category of symbols are the non-premium symbols. Unlike premium symbols, they appear much more often, but pay much less when they are part of a connection. They are represented by the highest values in a deck of cards, namely: Ace, King, Queen, Jack and 10.

The following screen also shows the values of each symbol with a starting bet of 1 euro.

The different connections of The Bowery Boys

As it was explained in the introduction of this slot The Bowery Boys works with cascading connections. It is also important to know that this slot has no paylines. For a connection to occur, the same symbol must appear at least 8 times on your starting grid. Once this happens, the connection is made and all symbols disappear.

The more of the same symbol that appears on your starting grid, the bigger your final win will be. Finally, it should be noted that multiple connections can take place at the same time. Unlike many slot machines where only the highest payout is taken into account, in this slot, every possible connection is a win.

For those who do not understand how the connections work on The Bowery Boys, please refer to the following screen which explains perfectly how they work.

It is important to know that no matter where the symbols are located on your starting grid, they can connect from any position.

How The Bowery Boys' bonuses work

The Bowery Boys is a slot machine that contains not just one, but three bonuses. In this section, we'll go through them one by one, and you'll be able to read and notice that some are much more volatile than others.

First, we'll tell you about the first bonus, which you can also buy for 80 times your initial bet. As soon as a bonus symbol appears on your screen, you are entitled to 10 free spins.

There are two different features to enjoy during these free spins. The first is that every time a chest appears on your screen, but there is no key, you don't lose it. As you can see on the following screen, each chest that is not opened accumulates in the top right of your screen.

As in the paid games, to open the chest, you will need to obtain a key. This key will allow you to open all the chests that are accumulated.

The second feature is with the bombs. As during your free spins, bombs with a multiplier between x 2 and x 100 can appear. These allow you to multiply the total value achieved during your game round. It is important to note that if you open chests and you have a bomb, this bomb also multiplies the value of your chest.

Finally, no matter what bonus you get, it is quite possible to get additional free spins. Whenever a bonus symbol appears during your free spins, it will give you an extra free spin. You can get this symbol several times during your free spins.

A second bonus is also available, and you can get it in two different ways: by buying it for 200 times your starting bet, or by getting two bonus symbols on the same spin. Once this happens, you get 10 free spins, which you can retrigger as explained above.

During these bonus games, your goal will be to collect as much TNT as possible before it explodes. As you can see on the following screen, each TNT that appears has a multiplier. Each time TNT appear, they will be stored in the top right corner of your starting grid and the value of all TNT accumulates.

For TNT to explode, a detonator symbol must appear on your screen. If this is the case, the value of your TNT will multiply the win of your current round. In the following screen, the €0.10 win will be multiplied by x 206.

It is important to know that if you have TNT in your trunk, a detonator appears and no connection has been made on the turn, then you lose your multiplier.

Finally, another very important thing to consider is the presence of chests of different sizes. Just like during your paid rounds, you will need a key to be present on your turn to open the chests. Note that if a chest appears, a key opens it and a detonator is also present, if you have TNT in the chest then they will multiply the total value of your turn, that is the value of your chest + your connection.

Finally, a third bonus is also present in this slot. Just like the others, you have two different ways to get it: by buying it for 300 times your starting bet, or by getting the "bonus" symbol three times on the same game spin. Once you do, you also get 10 free spins that you can retrigger, just like the other bonuses.

The third and final bonus in The Bowery Boys is the one that offers you the most features. First of all, the chest feature is still present. However, as you can see in the top right corner of your starting grid, another chest is also present. In this chest all the connections made during your free games and the value of the chests obtained will be stored.

Bombs are also present during these free spins. These bombs, which offer multipliers ranging from x2 to x100, will only multiply the value of your connection on the spin.

The other important symbol is in the next screen: the dollar. This symbol allows you to get all the money in your safe, if there is any.

Another new symbol during these free spins is the police symbol. If you have money in the safe, the police symbol will reduce the value of the safe by 10-50% of its value. This is the only feature of this symbol.

Finally, the last feature present during these free spins is with a die. As soon as this dice appears on your screen, it will multiply the value of your chest. The multipliers that can appear range from x2 to x12.

Our opinion on The Bowery Boys

What a great slot machine. The Bowery Boys is a real achievement from Hacksaw Gaming. The provider takes the players perfectly into the world of gangs in the 1950s in the United States. The animations are very pleasant and the sound atmosphere is particularly captivating.

This is a slot machine that you won't be bored at all as there are several features present during your pay spins. When it comes to free games, Hacksaw Gaming has thought of all types of players, as there are 3 different free games available. These free games, which you can purchase directly on the slot machine, can win you up to 10,000 times your original bet.

Finally, another very important point to look at on a slot before playing it is its theoretical return to the player. The Bowery Boys, in addition to being an excellent and highly volatile slot machine, also offers you a decent RTP, as it varies between 96.36% and 96.48% depending on how you play. Note that this RTP is above the average for other slots, which is around 96%.